Commentary Recommendations

The Gospel Coalition has produced a new list of commentary recommendations. You can read more about it here.

Journal of Biblical Literature 143:1

Volume 143:1  of the Journal of Biblical Literature is now available. Here is a list of articles with links to abstracts.

Introduction to the Presidential Address
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi

Behold, the Global Translated Bible(s)! Research and Pedagogical Implications
Musa W. Dube

Returning the King and the Women to the Beginning of the Song of Songs
Gavin Fernandes

The Materiality of Scribal Practice in Isaiah 8:1–2: Papyrus, Pens, and Authority in Inscribing Prophecy
Elizabeth VanDyke

Enoch the Explorer: 1 Enoch 17–36 in Its Hellenistic Context
Paul J. Kosmin

Demons Seeking Identity? The Psychic Life of New Testament Exorcisms

Joseph L. Kimmel

The Souring of the Ways: Anti-Jewish Readings of Psalm 69 and the Wine Offerings to Jesus
John Anthony Dunne

Is the Gospel of Mark Distinctly Pauline? A Critical Evaluation
John Van Maaren

The Rupture of an Association: Social Conflict and Its Management in the Thessalonian Christ Assembly
Bruce W. Longenecker

Thomas in Alexandria: Arguments for Locating the Gospel and Book of Thomas in Alexandria
M. David Litwa

The Latest Issue of the Review of Biblical Literature

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below but unfortunately you must be a SBL member to read them.

Steed Vernyl Davidson and Daniel Timmer, eds., Prophetic Otherness: Constructions of Otherness in Prophetic Literature (T&T Clark)
Yisca Zimran

Vincent Gabrielsen and Mario C. D. Paganini, eds., Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity (Cambridge University Press)
Christina Gousopoulos

Albert Geljon and Nienke Vos, eds., Rituals in Early Christianity: New Perspectives on Tradition and Transformation (Brill)
Jade Weimer

Daniel B. Glover, Patterns of Deification in the Acts of the Apostles (Mohr Siebeck)
M. David Litwa

Morten Hørning Jensen, The “Gospel” between Emperor and Temple in the Gospel of Mark: A Story of Epoch-Making Proximity to the Divine through Victory and Cult (Mohr Siebeck)
Scot McKnight

Ole Jakob Løland, Pauline Ugliness: Jacob Taubes and the Turn to Paul (Fordham University Press)
Peter Frick

Ronald L. Troxel, Commentary on the Old Greek and Peshitta of Isaiah 1–25 (SBL Press)
Jerome Lund

Christopher J. H. Wright, The Great Story and the Great Commission: Participating in the Biblical Drama of Mission (Baker Academic)
Nathan Bills